Overview of the drug market in the European Neighbourhood Policy-South countries: Regional report

The topics explored in This report provides an overview of the drugs market the interviews included the respondents’ perceptions of across the Southern partnership of the European drug availability, patterns in use and trends, and Neighbourhood Policy region (ENP-South) (1) and focuses information related to the operation of the drug market on Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, (pro. [...] Given the of the situation is needed as many of the current perception that the current dynamics of drug use in the background conditions are similar to those observed in region could mean that consumption patterns have the 8 Key findings potential to change, rapidly improving the surveillance of drug prevalence and patterns of drug use must be regarded as a priority for monitoring and research ac. [...] The participation of Declining economic conditions in the region and related some of these groups in drug production and trafficking effects on government finances have also impacted the activities appears to have resulted in violence associated ability of regional states to respond to the production, with drug market activities and more generally poses a trafficking and use of illicit drugs. [...] developments taking place elsewhere in the world, Historically, the production of illicit drugs in the ENP-South discussion is also currently ongoing that may lead to region has been dominated by cannabis cultivation for the changes in the regulatory and legal approach taken to production of cannabis resin in Lebanon and Morocco, some forms of cannabis cultivation in these areas (see the largely f. [...] Given the fragility of the states in these regions and trafficking of captagon tablets has been noted over the last the historical cross-Sahel trafficking of Moroccan five years either from the Syrian ports of Latakia and cannabis, the use of this route could increase in the near Tartous or the Lebanese port of Beirut.